Prevalence of urinary tract infections in pregnant women and antimicrobial resistance patterns in women in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a retrospective study.

Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common health problems worldwide and mainly affect women. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of UTIs in pregnant women and determine the antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacterial pathogens isolated from pregnant and nonpregnant women in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted at an academic medical center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from January to June 2022.

Intellectual Disability in Two Brothers Caused by De Novo Novel Unbalanced Translocation (13;18) (q34,q23) and De Novo Microdeletion 6q25 Syndrome.

We report here two brothers with an intellectual disability (ID), dysmorphic features, speech delay, and congenital hypotonia, with chromosomal microarray confirmed. However, two different de novo chromosomal aberrations; unbalanced translocations (13;18) (q34,q23) were found in the elder boys and de novo 6q25 deletion in the second boy. The boy with 13q34 microdeletion and 18q23 microduplication suffered from ID, obesity, dysmorphic features, speech delay, and seizure while the one with 6q25 deletion presented with ID and speech delay.

Does nephrotoxicity develop less frequently when vancomycin is combined with imipenem-cilastatin than with meropenem? A comparative study.

Nephrotoxicity is a frequent complication of vancomycin therapy. Experimental studies in different animal species have demonstrated the attenuation of vancomycin-associated nephrotoxicity with cilastatin administration. This study aimed to evaluate if imipenem-cilastatin attenuates vancomycin-associated nephrotoxicity, in patients treated with combinations of vancomycin and carbapenems.